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Naturalizing skepticism

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 301-315, July 2024.
Abstract Naturalism, construed as the idea that philosophy should be continuous with science, is a highly influential view. Its consequences for epistemology, however, are rather odd. Many believe that naturalized epistemology allows eschewing traditional skeptical challenges.
Marc Jiménez‐Rolland
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The psychopathology of metaphysics: Depersonalization and the problem of reality

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 3-30, January 2024.
Abstract According to a common philosophical intuition, the deep nature of things is hidden from us, and the world as we know it through perception and science is, just like a dream, shadows, or a computer simulation, somehow shallow and lacking in reality.
Alexandre Billon
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Astroparticle physics, a constructive empiricist account

Science & Philosophy, 2019
Astroparticle physics is an interdisciplinary field embracing astronomy, astrophysics and particle physics. In a recent paper on this topic (2012), Brigitte Falkenburg defended that only scientific realism can make sense of it and that realist beliefs ...
Alessio Gava
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Bas Van Fraassen y la Ley de Hardy-Weinberg: una discusión y desarrolo de su diagnóstico

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2008
O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir e desenvolver o diagnóstico que efetua van Fraassen (1987, p. 110) da lei de Hardy-Weinberg, de acordo coo qual esta: 1) não pode ser considerada uma lei a ser utilizada como un axioma da teoria genética de ...
Pablo Lorenzano
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Common-Sense Realism and the Unimaginable Otherness of Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
Bas van Fraassen endorses both common-sense realism — the view, roughly, that the ordinary macroscopic objects that we take to exist actually do exist — and constructive empiricism — the view, roughly, that the aim of science is truth about the ...
Bradley Monton
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A Contextual Account of Explanation in Logic

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Recent approaches to the epistemology of logic, under the title of “anti-exceptionalism about logic”, explicitly adopt what is asserted to be the method of theory choice and the correct account of explanation in the sciences.
Evelyn Erickson
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Representation and Perspective in Science

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2007
The world science describes tends to have a very strange look. We can’t see atoms or force fields, nor are they imaginable within visualizable categories, so neither can we even imagine what the world must be like according to recent physical theories ...
Bas C. van Fraassen
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Non-causal laws: an alternative hypothesis to Armstrong’s hypothesis

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
Non-causal laws have long been a thorn in David Armstrong’s side. This paper aims to provide a more accommodating framework for these laws within Armstrong’s metaphysics of laws of nature.
Eduardo Castro
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Jonh Locke e o realismo científico [PDF]

Princípios, 2007
This article has as its aim to discuss the insertion of John Lock in the philosophy of scientific realism in what concerns to the debate realism/empiricism.
Marcos Rodrigues da Silva
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El concepto de teoría empírica según van Fraassen

Crítica, 2018
En los años setenta cristaliza un nuevo enfoque en la filosofía de la ciencia, el cual venía gestándose desde diferentes direcciones. Se conforma una concepción de teoría empírica —tanto de su naturaleza como de su estructura y función esencialmente ...
Ana Rosa Pérez Ransanz
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